with subtitles followed by Weather
Tony Gubba introduces highlights of the best of yesterday evening's quarter-finals.
Ian McNaught-Davis talks to Lynn McTaggart, Editor of Which Computer magazine, about the bad advice you may be given if you go to a High Street store to purchase a business computer.
Leslie Judd and Fred Harris look at educational software; there's a visit to a computer camp for young enthusiasts; and the winners of the Micro Live Integrated
Software Project will be announced.
But why is Freff freezing on top of a skyscraper in New York with only a cellular radio telephone for company? Director TERRY MARSH Producer DAVID ALLEN
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as Sergeant Bilko AWOL
Guest presenter Paul Young introduces the first ORS 85, live from the Oxford Road studios in Manchester. Timmy Mallett is on hand with the Megaquiz, and Janice Long introduces her Radio 1 featured session band,
Strawberry Switchblade.
Music as well from Paul Young and Billy Ocean. With a live phone-in quiz, film features, horoscopes, and special guests dropping in, that's the menu for BBC2's fast-moving electronic magazine. Director JEM KIME
Producer PETER HAMILTON BBC Manchester
In the little parish church the bride and bridegroom take their vows. But what does marriage hold when the newly-weds are both out of work? In the Dearne Valley of the South Yorkshire coalfields, unemployment is nothing new. For 25 years, the dole queues have been growing as local pits have contracted or closed altogether. But no part of this valley has suffered more than the Dearne Towns, where unemployment is approaching 30 per cent - more than twice the national average. Now the pits face further upheaval, and with no new industries coming in Richard Wells reports on the desperate plight of a community contemplating economic extinction.
from Barnsdale
Germinating and growing plants without a greenhouse can be difficult, but it's not impossible to achieve good results with the right equipment. Clay Jones looks at a range of propagators, including a simple-to-make DIY version, while Geoff Hamilton shows how to construct an equally simple growing box designed to ensure that young plants growing on the window-sill will have sufficient light. How do you look after the house plants you've had for Christmas and how about using hardy plants in the house? Carl Poulson from Geests gives some topical advice.
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
The Embassy World
Professional Championship Now there are only four players left from the original 32 who commenced this championship. In tonight's semi-finals, it's the best of nine sets, five legs per set. In the first match, the reigning champion,
ERIC BRISTOW , is seeded to play the unpredictable Scot, JOCKY WILSON.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA Commentator SID WADDELL and TONY GREEN
The Embassy World
Professional Championship In the second semi-final, that master of technique, JOHN LOWE , is expected to challenge the man of iron nerves - cool, calm MIKE GREGORY.
Directors NICK HUNTER and KEITH MACKENZIE
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
